A balanced review - some good, some bad
From:
-Anonymous-
Date posted:
2/14/2006
Years at this apartment:
2004
-
2006
I came here from a much more expensive and rundown brownstone in NYC, so to me, Riverbend is like a RESORT. The walls are thin, but we've been lucky to make friends with our neighbors - but all rentals built after 1880 will have thin(ish) plaster walls. As my dad says, that's just apartment life. We held out for a top floor apartment for this very reason, and it makes a big difference. The grounds are beautiful and there are always landscapers working on something. The views from the promenade are unbeatable, day or night. One in a million. Carpeting, appliances, tile floors, new buildings, etc. Leaving NYC after 12 years to come here was like a great new chapter in my life.
HOWEVER - all of the negative stories you hear on this board are true. It's just a crying shame - the lunatics are running the asylum. It just makes you want to cry and scream - it would take so little effort for the management to make this a paradise, and they are just incompetent, uneducated, stupid, inconsistent, lazy, unprofessional, and so on. I've been very active in trying to get things fixed in my almost 2 years here, and it's just not worth it. A nice retiree got her tires slashed in the garage recently, and the management was not only unsympathetic, but the garage doors and other doors remain ROUTINELY broken or jammed open. I kid you not. The staff DO park their cars in the handicapped spots, the management DOES schedule exterminators and then blow off the dates, they don't return ANY phone calls for ANY reason (seriously), they don't enforce any rules. They can't keep the doors closed or the garage fixed. In two years they've never followed up on the simple suggestion to add a recycle bin near the mailboxes for junk mail and Pathmark flyers, so we get lobbies carpeted with trash. The result is something called the 'broken window theory' - since we as residents see anarchy, incompetence and rule breaking from above, we all lose our motivation to be good citizens. So now everyone speeds, leaves their dog crap everywhere (I have a dog myself and have to walk through it 3x a day), throws their trash on the floor of the lobby, blasts music, draws on the walls, parks illegally, and so on. It's a picture-perfect setting that just makes you hate coming home at night. It's an unbelieveable shame and almost everyone I know who's moved away from here has done so bitterly, like someone getting out of a job they hate. One couple moved up the street to Avalon and said that the simple addition of better management made it a DREAM. There are so many options in this area, I'd look somewhere else. And yes, the condo conversion is a nightmare - $750k for a 2br without a view or balcony, $480 for a 1br. And did I mention that they're going to be putting up another highrise where the tennis courts are'
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